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And the korean was a war of necessity. and the gulf war. >> how did the korean war end? >> it ended just fine, the sense we liberated the part of korea that had been overtaken. the mistake in the korean war was begin when was was -- began as a war of necessaries zpi then when macarthur went north of the 38th parallel we turned it into a war of choice and became extraordinarily expensive. theres a very high standard particularly given what jane har harman said. the united states is already involv...

This over and over again about limited brain cells. yes, youre right, bob, that we mostly have our navy in place, although imagine if the straits of hormuz were blocked we might need our navy there. weve got a lot of assets offshore libya. but my point is that brain cells are limited. if we have most of the white house tied up trying to make this come out right, by the way, what about the unrest, the transformation sweeping every country we can name in the greater middle east? >> thats right. ja...

From him if it looks like their lives are on the line. i think we have to have a little patience. this has been going on for five days and people are running and screaming as if we already failed. i think a little patience is necessary and is an important interest of ours by the way. whats happening in the middle east is connected to whats going on in libya if we stand by and let a dictator in the region like gadhafi slaughter his people, thats a terrible setback and not in americas interest. >>...

Minister of interior people that worked with the previous regime. we are not entirely certain of the shape of the organization so far. i think that one of the important things we need to do is get our diplomatic representation down to benghazi and start dealing directly with the people and get our own assessment of what the opposition is shaping up to become. the question of the vitality of the interest, if i could make one point about what richard said earlier. i would agree that the interest m...

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You have opposing armies in place. or you could have situations where the intervention fails and you have all sorts of questions then about what the united states does with gadhafi and even if it does succeed again, then we have all sorts of fundamental issues about who it is were helping and are we so sure the opposition will necessarily pursue an agenda that is in the interest of the united states or in the interest of the people of libya. im very uncomfortable with such a large commitment giv...

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